Eric Hoffer Quotes

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I always do something that I've never done before.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Everything is an experiment.

It's always more interesting to do new things.